She also played a key role as dowager-regent during the minority of her son.

The half of Asia is my prison-house, Myriads of convicts lost in its Immense— I look with terror to my crowning day.

O Lord, thou biddest in thy gospell to beware of the Pharises, for it is a point of pride contrary to meeknesse. And Lord, thou sayest that they love the first sittings at suppers, and also the principal chaires in churches, and greetings in cheeping, and to bee cleped masters of men. And Lord, thou sayest be yee not cleped masters, for one is your Master, and that is Christ, and all ye be brethren: and clepe ye to you no father upon earth, for one is your Father that is in heauen. O Lord, this is a blessed lesson to teach men to be meeke.

At the bar, each group occupies its own place. Lacrosse players (or playas, whichever you prefer) hover on the right side of the bar, near the entrance. If you are lucky (or a lacrosstitute), one of them will order you the Lacrosse Shot, […]